Adrian Adermon

Researcher

Biography

I am researcher at the Institute for Evaluation of Labor Market and Education Policy (IFAU) in Uppsala, Sweden. I am also affiliated with the Department of Economics and Uppsala Center for Labor Studies at Uppsala University.

Selected Publications

We estimate intergenerational wealth rank correlation across four generations, finding parent-child correlations of 0.3-0.4, and grandparent-grandchild correlations of 0.1-0.2. Inheritances account for at least half of the association.

We estimate intergenerational transmission coefficients using several outcome measures for wide definitions of the extended family. Traditional parent-child estimates miss about half of the persistence across generations estimated by the extended model.

Recent Publications

We estimate intergenerational wealth rank correlation across four generations, finding parent-child correlations of 0.3-0.4, and grandparent-grandchild correlations of 0.1-0.2. Inheritances account for at least half of the association.

We estimate intergenerational transmission coefficients using several outcome measures for wide definitions of the extended family. Traditional parent-child estimates miss about half of the persistence across generations estimated by the extended model.

We document a pattern of job polarization in Sweden between 1975 and 2005, with growth in high- and low-wage jobs compared to middle-wage jobs. Changes after 1990 are consistent with task-biased technological change.

A 2009 copyright law reform in Sweden reduced Internet traffic by 16% and increased music sales by 36% during the first six months after implementation, implying that pirated music was a strong substitute to legal music.